Richard Schwartz's Pessimistic Short Story on AI and Math
lpachter · x · 2026-08-31
Lior Pachter recommends "The Fate of the Riemann Hypothesis," a pessimistic short story by Brown University professor Richard Schwartz exploring the relationship between AI and mathematics. Pachter jokes that predicting the changes by 2035 actually makes the author an optimist.
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